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Thursday, 30 August 2012

All Things Urban Fantasy is holding a giveaway on their blog as part of the Deadly Destinations, and you can enter to win a lot of different books. A lot of comps are US only but there are plenty more for us Aussie folks to enter!

What is the silliest/most embarrassing/craziest thing you ever did to get someone's attention?

Gee, this is pushing my memory. (Yes I'm aware of the fact I only started college this year so it obviously couldn't have been that long ago but I have a bad memory okay!) Okay, I've got it!

I went to an extremely small school for high school, only 30 or so kids in grades 7-10, and so it was hard to keep secrets from anyone. My friends told me that this super-cute guy liked me, but I wasn't sure whether or not it was true. My epic plan to find out if he did like me, was to be totally creepy and constantly stare at him. I didn't just give him secretive looks, I would stare and as soon as he'd turn my way I'd look down, or up, or across the other way... It was extremely embarrassing and silly, and 100% crazy, but I was really shy and didn't want to actually 'speak' to him.

It turns out he did like me and my freaky stares didn't scare him off, so we ended up going out. We were both a little too shy to make the relationship work though, but he is still a cool guy and I will always respect the fact that he liked me, creepy staring and all.

(I'm a little tired so I'm really hoping I haven't made any horrible spelling/grammatical errors. I apologise if I have!)

Monday, 20 August 2012

Jessica Khoury is running on competition on her blog called the Origin Olympics! Origin, is of course the title of her fabulous new book which is in stores September 4th!!
The competition is made up of a whole series of mini tasks - you don't have to complete all of them but the more you enter the more chances there are to win! There are 25 tasks/events in total and when you complete 15, you automatically win a 'Bronze Medal' which is a swag pack consisting of:
1 limited edition Origin bookmark
1 limited edition Origin bookmark
1 signed Origin bookplate
1 Pia's bird necklace (this is a limited stock, so get in quick!)
There is also a silver medal (three winners) and a gold medal (one winner). The prizes are awesome so go and check it out!

Saturday, 18 August 2012

My Super Sweet Sixteenth Century is a new book by Rachel Harris and to celebrate and promote it's release (which is only another 24 days.. squee!) she has started her own street team called the Flirt Squad. The link, here: http://www.rachelharriswrites.com/flirt-squad/ is much better at explaining it than I am but I would really recommend joining. There's heaps of cool swag and other majorly awesome prizes, so give it a go! It's international and a whole heap of fun!

Tuesday, 14 August 2012

I won a boxed set of The Best of Enid Blyton from Date A Book recently, (if you're Australian and you haven't already you should *like* their facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/datebooks) and it arrived in the mail today. Squee! And yes, I am counting 'squee' as a cool word, because I like it! Anyway, I thought that was a nice way to start things off, plus I'm very excited and wanted to share the news with everybody.

I thought I'd share a little of my day with you, as that is all I really have to write about. I am not going to go about it in chronological order though, as that is too snazzy and un-confusing for me!

So this evening my boyfriend came to my place of residence for an hour or so to hang out. I had been entering a competition that Jessica Khoury (author of a new book called Origin) was running which involves writing a very short piece of fiction based on a chosen theme and a picture that is to come from the authors pinterest board. (The competition is international and can be found at Jessica's blog if anyone's interested: http://jnkhoury.blogspot.com.au/) I love to write so I had heaps of fun entering this competition, which is only on for another 3 days! I knew my boyfriend also liked to write (or at least he had liked to) so I held him at gunpoint and forced him to enter. (That's all lies and slander by the way, but it is more intriguing than the actual story) I was super-duper impressed with what he wrote! I thought it was just brilliant and I was sad it had to be so short because I would've loved to know more. He was less impressed than me with what he wrote, but I think that's the way it is when you write things, you think it is 'just okay' while others believe it to be a masterpiece. I am very excited now to see if either of us take the gold in the competition. (I find it very weird that I said 'take the gold' as I never watch the Olympics and it seems a very olympicy thing to say). I can't find very much more to say on this subject, probably because it is well past the time when I should be sleeping but I need to get this all down first, mostly out of stubbornness.

The other main part of my day was college. I only had one lesson today which happened to be maths.. my favourite! (just in case you couldn't pick up on it, my voice/text was dripping with sarcasm). I don't mind maths, I have quite a mathematical brain, but having to remember all those different formulas just about kills me. I usually have quite a good time in maths, it's only a one hour session and one of my friends happens to be taking that class too!, but today we had a relief teacher and I just couldn't seem to like her. My usual teacher, Shaun (the Sheep) is really good. He's funny and nice and I can understand what he is teaching us; this lady was below par compared to him. Firstly, she looked grumpy. I didn't really feel any warmth from her, she warmed up a little through the lesson, but she didn't really make you feel warm and fuzzy. Secondly, I could understand a thing she was trying to teach us. I'm not sure if she was speaking an alien language or if I was just having an off day, but I just couldn't comprehend what she was saying. Maybe I'm just too used to Shaun's teaching style, but I just couldn't quite understand. In the end I went through my book and by comparing that and her foreign scrawls, I was able to decipher the formulas/equations. I don't know if I'm being overly harsh on her, but she just didn't mesh well with me. Apart from that little annoyance, I had a rather wonderful day.

I was going to do this with my last post... but I forgot, so I shall just have to start it here. I don't think I'll do this for every post (mostly because my memory refuses to cooperate with me, and I shall likely forget) but I shall do it every so often. Here is my word of the day/week/month... [insert drum-roll here]

Pulchritudinousadjective: Physically beautiful; comely

Sunday, 12 August 2012

Hello there my chums!
This is technically not my first blog post but it is also, in a way, my first blog post. (As you can probably tell I usually make a lot of sense... at least to me... most of the time). I'm not entirely sure what I should say. I think I may have had it mapped out in my head before but it somehow must've wriggled away while I was looking elsewhere. Anyway, one thing I've decided is that during my posts I shall highlight certain words and phrases that tickle my fancy, just because.

I think this first post will be fairly short, mainly because I cannot think of a worthy enough subject for this particular tale of whimsy. I shall introduce myself now, as I neglected to do so in the opening paragraph which would probably have made sense. I'm not really one for sense though, I prefer to be as kooky and nonsensical as one can be!
So, my name is Myra and I am currently 16 (though soon to be 17, might I add!) I reside in a little state called Tasmania, which is somehow commonly over-looked when Australia is mentioned. I don't understand why this is, maybe it's because the sheer awesomeness of the people who live here dazzles people so they occasionally forget our existence. My days are usually filled with books, reading, boyfriend, competition entering, boyfriend, school, facebook, reading, work, computer, boyfriend, movies, sleeping, eating, reading and occasionally homework. There is actually a lot more than that filling up my time, but that list is good enough for the moment.

I don't think I have anything else to say at the moment, I can always return if the need arises. Plus I have many more opportunities in which I'll be able to express myself and hopefully improve my blogging.

Hello all. This is a handy little page with a few links to places you can pre-order My Super Sweet Sixteenth Century by Rachel Harris. There are some US, UK & Australian pages, so you can pick whatever takes your fancy. Have fun and happy reading!

Saturday, 11 August 2012

I'd highly recommend watching this fabulous book trailer of Rachel Harris' 'My Super Sweet Sixteenth Century' and then of course you should read the book! I don't want to give anything away but time-travel may be involved.. Watch the book trailer, I guarantee you won't regret it!

Also check out the Flirt Squad! It's a chance to win awesome prizes and have a lot of fun. You can check it out here: http://www.rachelharriswrites.com/flirt-squad/
Now for the prizes. You earn points by doing certain things, and the more points you earn the better prizes you get, prizes are as follows:

First level (25 points): A Super Sweet bookmark and tattoo

Second level (75 points): All prizes above PLUS a set of trading cards (your very own pocket-sized Lorenzo and Cat!), and a Super Sweet bracelet

Third level (150 points): All prizes above PLUS your name in the acknowledgements of book 2 in the Super Sweet series, A TALE OF TWO CENTURIES

Fourth level (250 points): All prizes above PLUS a special note from me inviting you to the sequel to My Super Sweet Sixteenth Century, A TALE OF TWO CENTURIES, including a special sneak peek!

ALL Participants who Reach Fifth Level (500 points): All prizes above PLUS an entry into a drawing to make a special appearance as a character in a future book.

And the FIRST to Fifth Level (500 points): Wins all the prizes above PLUS a sparkly tiara (you ARE an official Sweet Sixteen diva now after all), and a special necklace with the cover of my book as a charm.

I would like to alert my readers that my opinions are my own and I am not being paid for my reviews. All books not bought are given to me freely and are accepted for an honest review. Receiving ARC's and/or free review copies in no way influences the opinions expressed in my reviews.